Best Friends Forever
By Bedoor Khalaf
I am Bedoor Khalaf, a
Bahraini poet and author of
short stories and children
books. My passion towards
writing started at a very
young age where I found
poetry as the perfect means
to describe my emotions
and make sense of life as
I saw it. I write a variety
of topics on my blog
ranging from serious work
related rants to poetry
and short stories. Still a
method to question life and
existentialism, my infatuation
with the written word serves
me well.
She started questioning everything and everyone. Things
she once thought were given truths are now unknown. Her life
was hazy, she didn’t have anyone to turn to and it was one of
the most difficult phases in her life.
She sighed.
She recalled her childhood: things at school were as
dramatic as they would be for all students throughout the
generations. Issues and fights over toys and clothes and best
friends and so forth. Best friends. She went through all grades
in her mind and one face kept popping up. A familiar face from
her childhood. A face she once knew so well they pinkie swore
they would never lose touch.
But they did. A really long time ago.
They never had a falling out, just a drifting apart. Things
like this happen. Junior high is over and all of a sudden you’re
not even talking to your best friend. You start hanging out in
different circles and even though you live a block away, you
just never meet up, never bump into each other, and never
speak. As if the sleep-overs never were and the secret signals
weren’t a part of your childhood.
She smiled.
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Perle
APRIL - MAY 2017